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College and Career Week

CATCH THE HMS CAREER WEEK WAVE

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Thank you to our diverse career featured speakers:
  • Sri Abboy, MD, Physician
  • Mike Alves, Wealth Manager
  • Suzanne Badawi, JD, Attorney
  • Jennifer Bartlett, JD, Attorney
  • Shawn Batten, JD, Attorney
  • Elizabeth Chen, MD, Physician
  • Connie Cheng Pham, DO, Pediatrician
  • Lesley Cheung, DDS, MS, Orthodontist
  • Grace Chung Huang, MD, Interventional Cardiologist
  • Vivian Dalton, MPT, CLT, Physical Therapist\
  • Jill Gold Wright, PhD, College Professor of English & Rabbi in-training
  • Christopher Gorham, Actor & Director
  • Jocelyn Go Young, Assistant VP, IT Manager
  • Julia Greer, PhD, CalTech Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics & Medical Engineering
  • Frank Greer, PhD, Engineering Manager and Group Supervisor
  • Grant Hollis, Senior Art Director
  • Emiko Isa, Senior Project Manager & Land Use Consultant
  • Jennifer Kang, Corporate Relations Director, American Heart Association
  • Salman Khan, MD, Physician
  • Derrick Lew, PhD, Detective/SWAT
  • Danielle Martin Spicer, Architect
  • Grace Mellis, Managing Director of Investment Fund, Journalist, Children's Book Publisher
  • Issa Nesnas, Robotics Engineer
  • Alon Philosof, PhD, Caltech Engineering Dept
  • Lou Rabon, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) & CEO
  • Brian Raleigh, Senior VP, Netflix Feature Animation, Post Production
  • Erin Sato, Supervisory Special Agent, US Secret Service
  • Nona Sargsyan, Pianist
  • Mark Schmidt, Investor & Portfolio Manager
  • Anny Surmenian, MPA, MBA, Director of Ethics
  • Annie Tang, Director of Production (TV) & Emmy winner
  • Vijay Vishwanath, MD, Pediatric Neurologist
  • Patrick Wright, Aeronautical Engineer
  • Rick Yeganeh, MBA, Banker
  • Kenneth Yoon, JD, Attorney 
Hospitality Volunteers:
  • Fion Chan
  • Stefanie Killackey
  • Stephanie Raleigh
  • Weni Wilson
  • Amy Yee
  • Soyoung Yoon
Tech Support: Ashlin Anand HMS Media Specialist & the IT Team
PTA President: Jennifer Yuan-Kang
Career Day Chairs: Cindy Yung and Ruby Khalili
Career Day Coordinator: June Gonzalez, School Counselor
 

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Career Day

 
Thank you to our diverse career featured speakers:
  • Maya Aljehani, PhD, Epidemiologist
  • Elon Azoulay, Software Engineer 
  • Claud Betran, Executive Chef of Baccus' Kitchen
  • Nicole Cavender, PhD Director of Huntington Botanical Gardens
  • Connie Cheng, DO, Pediatrician
  • Lesley Cheung, DDS, Orthodontist
  • Gene Chuang, Chief Technology Officer
  • Therese Dodds, Oncology Sales Specialist
  • Raquel Folgado, PhD, Cryopreservation Research Botanist
  • Julia Greer, PhD, nanomechanics researcher at CalTech 
  • Frank Greer, PhD JPL Manager, Microdevice Engineer 
  • June Han, PhD, Biology Professor
  • Luyi Khasi, Journalist
  • Kevin Yoon Lai, Civil Engineer & Land Surveyor
  • Jane Lam, IT Security Director
  • Margaret Loh, MD, Radiologist
  • William Oh, Digital Marketing/SVP Marketing
  • Lou Rabon, Cyber Security Consultant
  • Cyrus McWilliams, Animation Supervisor
  • Brian Raleigh, Netflix Director, Post Production
  • Richard Teng, Credit Manager
  • Jill Van, CPA/CFO
  • Carolyn Winslow, Digital Artist, Retoucher
  • Kenneth Yoon, Lawyer
  • Edward Zee, User Experience Design
Thank you to our Hospitality Volunteers:
  • Soyoung Yoon
  • Stephanie Raleigh
  • Gina Aparicio
  • Magnolia Ycasas
  • Chiyoon Kim
  • Nancy Szeto-Ko
Thank you to our Tech Support -  Ashlin Anand, Erik Negroe, and John Tran! They were instrumental in helping our parents get their presentations set up. 
A special thank you - Mrs. Gonzalez, Mr. T,  our PTA President Jacki Chuang, and Cindy Yung & Wendy Yang our Career Day Chairs 
 
 

 College Week - Virtual Road Trip

VR

(Get Ready to SEE YOUR FUTURE in VR)

Monday

Welcome back from Winter Break. Today in Homeroom you will complete a Career Clusters Interest Survey designed to help you explore possible careers based on your results. Keep these results in mind over the course of the week as you explore colleges that might meet your career cluster interests. 

 

* You will access the remainder of this week’s Homeroom activities with Chromebooks by visiting the www.hehms.us website and click on College & Career Week posted under News & Announcements.

 

Tuesday

Today you will go on a college road trip without having to leave the classroom. You will explore colleges from around the nation through a virtual 360°experience on your chrome books. Please use your classroom headsets for this audio-guided tour. You can change the language spoken to either Spanish or Chinese by clicking on the English icon as seen below and then select your preferred language.

VR 360 experience

   Now let's hit the road! Click on "Education" for your college tour!

VR Tour

 


  Click on the following link: http://www.youvisit.com/virtual-reality-360-experience

Wednesday

Wear your favorite College T-shirt or college colors tomorrow. A Special Treat will be delivered in Homeroom today!

Today you will continue your college road trip without having to leave the classroom. You will explore colleges from around the nation through a virtual 360°experience on your chromebooks. Please use your classroom headsets for this audio-guided tour. You can change the language spoken to either Spanish or Chinese by clicking on the English icon as seen above and then select your preferred language.

Remember to choose the 360°Experience icon as seen above for virtual viewing. Now let's hit the road!
Click on the following link: http://www.youvisit.com/virtual-reality-360-experience

Thursday - Wear your favorite College T-shirt or college colors

Today you will continue on your college road trip. Explore colleges from around the nation through a virtual 360° experience on your chromebooks. Please use your classroom headsets for this audio-guided tour. You can change the language spoken to either Spanish or Chinese by clicking on the English icon as seen above and then select your preferred language.

Remember to choose the 360° Experience icon as seen above for virtual viewing. Now let's hit the road!
Click on the following link: http://www.youvisit.com/virtual-reality-360-experience

Friday - Minimum Day

Today is an exciting day! We have over 35 speakers on campus today to share their careers with you as well as college representatives to discuss their school and programs they offer. Spend Homeroom today thinking of questions to ask our guests. Remember to be polite and thank them for taking time out their busy day to share their experiences with you.